Oct. i, 1894.] THE TROPICAL 
AGRICULTURIST. 
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gardens as a centre through whioh botany renders 
soientifio service to national progress. Modern 
botany has not yet found in this country its full 
application ; it has not rendered the service due 
to the State. In horticulture and agriculture it 
should fiDd a sphere of application by which it 
may contribute to our national well-being. Botan- 
ists must be the apos(le3 of forestry ; and 
forestry in turn will re-aot upon thoir treatment 
of botany. Botany oannot thrive in a purely 
introspective atmosphere ; it can live only by 
keeping in touch with the national life. — 
London Times. 
TOBACCO IN SUMATRA. 
Ambtekdam, Aug 8.— A new limited company has 
been established at Rotterdam with a capital of 
fl. 2,000,UOO, whioh is already fully taken up. The 
company is etyled Deli Agricultural Compmy, and 
will ooutinue the working of the estates Mabar, Saeutis, 
snd Jermauia in Deli, formerly belonging to the firm 
O. Eckels & Co. Tue director will be Mr. M. G. vau 
den Arend, director of the Tobacco Company Ar- 
endsburg. 
01 the crop of Sumatra tobacco of 1893 there have 
been sold in Holland up to this date 115,213 bales 
against 69,182 hales in ttie same period ot the pre- 
cediugyear. For the Autumu tales, the first of which 
is to be expected on 18. h September, there wilt be about 
46,000 to 47,000 bales. According to the latest reports, 
the thipmeuts of ti e 1893 crop have ceased, and the 
total quantity is about 167,000 bales. The sales held 
here iu the mouth of July, although they went 
off satisfac.ori'y, ha»e not shown suoh high prices 
for the article as iu the former mouths. The reason 
is that with tie tine lots also lower qualities were 
offered combined, and thus the average bid must be 
lower. Tbis system necessitates tlie buyers taking 
the fine aod ordinary tobacoo together, so that 
(hare remained very little unsold. Owing to the 
present war between China and Japan, fears weie 
txpr.ssed tbat the Deli tobacco ompanies would not 
be able to engage the required number of coolits iu 
Chiua, and this Las influence J the shares of some 
of tLeie Companies. Dili Company's shares dic'.iued 
31 per cent , Amsterdam Dnli Company shares 14 
per cent., and the Senembih Company shares 5| per 
cent. 
The following dividends have been announoed • 
— Agricultural Company Gin ting 14 per oent > 
Agricultural Company Maron 74 per cent.—//, and C 
Express. 
THE WORLD'S COFFEE SUPPLY. 
Viewed br^ adly, it may be stated that sicce 1890 
the aggregate yii Id of coffee in all placai has 
been increased by nearly 4,000,000 bags eays the 
Grocer, by far the greater poition of this heavier 
quantity raised having consisted of Braz 1 and Central 
American descriptions, which have been relied 
on more thau moot other kinds to fill up tbe 
ackard gaps that have been occasioned by the total 
or partial fa lure of the crops uiually furnishing 
supplies of what are kr.oun as our ■' fauoy " 
ooffees, and whioh have always been in strong- 
est request both for home UBe ani exportation. 
These superior grades of ooloury coffee, that formerly 
oame .from Ctylon, Java, aud the other East Indies 
iu rich abundance, h»ve, as is too well knowu by 
tho Linndon trade, till now been grown and shipped 
hither iu diininichiug quantities, so that it has been 
more difficult thau ever to obtain parcels of the 
rcqa site standard of quality f( r consumption, either 
here or oq tbe Continent, whpre the t.ste and liking 
lor tbe pi mtation 6orts of coffee have tecorne deoi- 
dcdly more marked with evory succeeding season. 
On the other baud, as intimated above, the cu'- 
ti»ation of the commoner growths of coffee, 
such as Brazil, aud their importation into the United 
Bla'.es where they are g uorally havo appreciated, 
has gone on at tremendous strides within tbe last five or 
six year*, and ha^e thus staved off what would bavo 
been a veritable coffee fanrne in the prolonged absence 
of consignments from fre h sources of production. 
This acquisition of supply, however, has rot been 
oomple ed without viofeot fluctuations in value, ex- 
tend ng Irom 15s to 30s per cwt. at oertaiu periods, 
aud when long in the upward direction enoouragiuif 
the planters everywhe e to redouble their exertions 
in producing as plentiful a yield of coffee as 
post i hie in the subsequent year. The great 
American demand being thus sati-fied, has 
left undisturbed, in a less degree than can be easily 
understood, the European markets, where a decoction 
of Brazil coffee is not the universal favourite with 
consumers; and although prices have been stiff and 
advancing since 1888, they have not been nearly so 
high as might have been the oa«e if both the Euro- 
pean at;d American markets had to te adequately 
supplied from the same kind of article. Besides keeping 
the value from mounting up to ao extravagant height, 
the g( nf ral outturn having been materially enlarged, 
has resulted iu placing it muoh above the average of 
previous yeare, and in the table already referred to it 
will be seen that there has been a surprising au^me - 
talion iu tbe supply of coffee since 1890. The figures 
pert lining to tLe present year, and more particularly 
those relating to 1895, are, of course, merely " estim- 
ate^ for the tim<i being, but may be taken as ap- 
proximate^ near the 'ru'h, and help to make it clear 
that the expectations of still more abund»nt crops 
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COFFEE IN SUMATRA. 
The Coffee Company Uansa, has not yet declared 
a dividend, as the crop was still too small, having 
amounted to 049 piculs in 1893, while the estimate 
for 1894 is 3,250 piculs. The four undertakings are 
in a satisfactory condition, 1,537 bouws with 2,450,000 
trees (equal to 1,500 to 2,000 acres perhaps ?) being 
cultivated. — L. and C. Express. 
